When comparing FL Studio vs Lumit, the Slant community recommends FL Studio for most people. In the question“What are the best DAWs?”FL Studio is ranked 5th while Lumit is ranked 39th. The most important reason people chose FL Studio is:

Pros

Pro

Free lifetime updates

With the producer or signature bundle, updates are free forever.

Pro

Easy to install

No complex activation shenanigans. No dongle and such.

Pro

Excellent for visual learners

All the stock plugins look really nice and really show users what is being done, it's a great way to learn mixing theory for a beginner. This approach makes FL Studio easy to learn compared to other DAWs.

Pro

Perfect for engineering because of the production style workflow

The workflow for creating beats in FL Studio is among the fastest which make mixing and mastering a breeze inserting plug-ins and routing on the mixer.

Pro

Good for the studio

Some DAWs are good for live shows, some DAWs are good for production, but the FL Studio DAW has carved its niche in the studio recording arena.

Pro

Easy to learn DAW

The FL Studio DAW utilizes drag and drop, and can generally be learned quickly without any prior knowledge.

Pro

Intuitive piano roll

Piano roll is a FL Studio's instrument step sequencer. It is considered to be among the most intuitive and flexible tools for quickly creating patterns and manipulating all aspects of each note. A single left click inserts a note, while a right click deletes it. It's possible to mute notes, splice them, stretch them, add shuffle, etc quickly.The Piano Roll caters for those new to Music Theory as well, containing an array of chords from which to choose, be it a Major, Minor, Minor 5th, Minor 9th, what have you.

Pro

Each update is major

When Image Line releases an update, it's safe to assume that there are major improvements in there.

Pro

Sampler

FL Studio has a very unique sampler which allows all kinds of sounds to be experimented with, be it a siren, a water drop, or more commonly, the infamous "Progressive House" Kick. The Sampler also allows the user to retune a sample to any key he/she desires

Pro

Scalable interface

The interface adapts to the screen size it's used on.

Pro

Smooth UI

Compared to other DAWs, FL's UI moves at full monitor refresh rates while others are somehow laggy.

Pro

Supports resampling

Pro

Very comprehensive plugin suite included

You have basic and advanced plugins right out the box.

Pro

Sample/MIDI Manipulation in the Playlist Mode

The Playlist mode comes with various tools for cutting out sections of a sample, midi arrangement, or otherwise. One can also clone, mute, solo out, and stretch a sample by any degree, although the sample's key will change

Pro

Flexible internal linking engine

It's linking engine and controller plugins are very flexible and useful all across the software. For mixing and also for performance mode.

Pro

Fully vectorial UI that will scale to virtually every screen

Because most DAWs don't scale well yet.

Pro

Fully open: accepts a variety of formats

Accepts VST/VSTi (v2,v3) Wav, Aiff, Rex, Acid, Apple Loop, Ogg, Mp3 as well as almost every video format including Mov and Mp4.

Pro

Inbuilt cross 32/64bit plugin bridge

Because you don't need to install/configure a third party bridge.

Pro

It comes as VSTi and Rewire

So you can use it inside another DAW....AFAIK there's no other DAW capable of doing that.

Pro

Reasonable and liberal license

Buy once, and you're allowed to use it on every computer you own.

Pro

It's possible to run FL Studio on Linux via Wine without a noticeable performance impact

Version 12 of FL Studio includes a new Generic ASIO driver that's capable of achieving same low latency performance as the native Windows version. Instructions on how to set up the DAW to run on Linux via Wine can be found here.

Pro

The only DAW with a VJ graphic generation suite (ZG Editor Visualizer)

No other DAW has that.

Pro

Imports video for scoring

You can open several video players.

Pro

Patcher: Modular environment

Pro

It is the only DAW where you can program real scratching sequences (Turntablism)

You can make your own scratches with the "Fruity Scratcher" or "Wave traveller".

Pro

Non-invasive DRM

Pro

Can import/export 32bit audio

Just as the internal engine bit depth, there's no loss in quality. Go and try opening 32bit files in Logic....impossible.

Pro

Unlimited Creativity

With tools in the piano roll like the "Riff Machine", and the "Randomize" tool, you can literally let the computer automate the production if you want. In addition to plugins like "Gross Beat", Slicex, DirectWave, the ideas can be limitless.

Pro

Very flexible timeline

Pro

Best stretching algorithms in the market

Pro

Surface compatible

All functionality is accessible on the Microsoft Surface.

Pro

Clutter-free interface

Little chance of getting lost or clicking the wrong button.

Pro

Fast

Incredibly responsive and quick.

Cons

Con

Native Mac version is in beta

FL Studio for Mac is still in beta. It doesn't even yet support Yosemite or El Capitan.

Con

No native Linux version

No native Linux version available. It's possible to run it using WINE with native performance. Instructions on how to set it up can be found here.

Con

Not intuitive for track based recording approach

Con

Has the tendency to crash

Always save before loading a new VST or doing something important: FL is extremely prone to crashes.

Con

The soundfont player will trash your projects, no 64-bit version available

Remember that nice project with a soundfont in it ? Yeeeah, load it again and prepare to face stuck MIDI notes and a trashed project.